Just keep watching this list. There will be an announcement in the
next few days of a new set of MacOS X packages. These install using
Apple's normal package installer and come with basic instructions.
To use Swarm on any platform you need some understanding of
C/Objective-C software development. The library packages are simple
to install, but then you have to write a model in the Swarm version of
Objective-C (or Java). Swarm does many thinks to make the process
simpler, such as taking care of memory management but you still need a
basic grasp of C and Objective-C.
There are a ton of books and tutorials on C, and the Swarm web site
has links to Objective-C and Swarm resources. Avoid any books about
Cocoa on MacOS X. Cocoa and Swarm are different dialects of
Objective-C and reading about Cocoa will confuse you. Since Swarm
uses a lot of the GNU support in MacOS X, books on Linux tend to be
helpful, but be aware that shared libraries on the two platforms are
quite different.
Bill Northcott
On 08/02/2005, at 7:49 AM, Tom Gilbert wrote:
I am a complete newcomer to SWARM (and UNIX !), and would like to
know if anyone can recommend to me either a tutorial that is
available, or simply a help guide, that will help new users in my
situation to simply set up SWARM on our OS X sytems (bearing in mind
that we get confused by general UNIX speak...)
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